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Fri Jun-03-05 02:01 PM
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Poll question: What flavor of atheist are you? |
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What with the discussions going on in GD today, I was wondering how my fellows here in this group think about this thing we call nonbelief. Do you feel you are a/an...
(Comments welcome. I'm open to changing poll options up until I can't any longer)
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Fri Jun-03-05 02:03 PM
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1. I'm more of a dark chocolate with a caramel and cookie center |
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Soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside.
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Fri Jun-03-05 02:03 PM
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2. Hey, that's clearly covered |
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Fri Jun-03-05 02:51 PM
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3. Hmm, I Suggest Modem Butterfly and Beam Me Up Scotty |
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Lick me all over and then they can tell you what flavor I am!
How about it ladies? :evilgrin:
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Fri Jun-03-05 03:13 PM
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4. I don't know about that... |
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But if you asked, I'll bet Bryant69 would bite you!
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:05 PM
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:11 PM
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8. And The Other Question? |
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:27 PM
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12. Do you have an ex-wife |
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:30 PM
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No X-wife and I'm not a veggie...
When can the licking commence?
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:37 PM
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16. I've got to do laundry and |
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then I'll be right over! :P
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Fri Jun-03-05 05:38 PM
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19. Oh how many times I've awoke to that ever so romantic phrase... |
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When can the licking commence?
:evilgrin:
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Fri Jun-03-05 09:26 PM
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Men are such romantics, aren't they?
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Sat Jun-04-05 11:54 AM
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26. Then You're A Lucky (Licky?) Woman! |
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Edited on Sat Jun-04-05 11:54 AM by Beetwasher
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Fri Jun-03-05 03:53 PM
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5. Did you get permission to define |
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us from the other side? We wouldn't want to confuse anyone...
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:08 PM
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Yeah, maybe we should ask the kind folks in R&T what we are. They are generally more than willing to let us know, and correct us when the need arises.
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:49 PM
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Fri Jun-03-05 06:07 PM
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20. I have to agree with you trotsky |
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the peeps over there seem to better handle on defining us than we do, if you don't believe it, just ask em cause they are waiting to tell us ;)
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:56 PM
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I knew I forgot something. I'm off to R&T to beg permission to talk to my fellows....
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:17 PM
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9. Just Checked Your Profile And Noticed That |
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Edited on Fri Jun-03-05 04:17 PM by Beetwasher
You're female. You can also lick me all over to find out what flavor I am. I didn't want you to feel left out. :evilgrin:
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:19 PM
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A pure-bred American horn dog, that is!
;)
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:21 PM
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But I'm an equal opportunity, all inclusive horn dog! There's enough of me for everyone! ;-)
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:29 PM
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13. Well, Miss Manners dictates that I thank you for your kind offer |
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Though I'm sure my dearest husband would have something severe to say about that :-) Um, can we race our cars instead?
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Fri Jun-03-05 04:31 PM
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Ok, you'll just have to ask BMUS what flavor I am.
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Fri Jun-03-05 10:34 PM
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22. gelliebean flavor n/t |
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I am leaning toward buttered popcorn :popcorn:
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Fri Jun-03-05 10:36 PM
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We live in a mechanistic and materialistic universe. The laws of thermodynamics have more relevance than the Ten Commandments. There's a space in science for God, but if there's a God in the space it's cold, distant, and probably has no conception of our exitence. There certainly aren't any angels sitting on clouds.
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Sat Jun-04-05 04:15 AM
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I simply don't believe in any gods...I don't care to try to disprove their existence.
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Sat Jun-04-05 06:29 AM
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25. non - apologetic atheist |
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I have been forced all my life to be respectful of their before meal prayers, invocations and feeling while they refuse to respect my beliefs as legitimate. To them we are a bunch of loser heathens who are going to hell.
I had so looked forward to going to the state convention and turning my back during the invocation this year but because of family health problems I can't go - that's $150 in hotel fees gone.
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Sun Jun-05-05 07:12 PM
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29. My favorite rhetorical trick: |
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Ask ANY believer to define God.... then ask why they believe in it.... (most will attempt to describe a non-gender, non-specific, nonthing....)
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Sun Jun-05-05 07:23 PM
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30. And then insist we have a belief system |
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or a religion based on actively not believing in said non-thing. :evilgrin: My head hurts again...
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Sun Jun-05-05 07:35 PM
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It's THEIR heads that are meant to implode! :evilgrin:
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Sun Jun-05-05 08:11 PM
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That must be what those funny sounds I kept hearing the other day were...
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Mon Jun-06-05 07:33 AM
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I believe everything is just floopy
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Thu Jun-09-05 08:54 PM
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Edited on Thu Jun-09-05 08:55 PM by enlightenment
I'm a fence sitter on just about every issue (except politics. I used to be, back when I felt like I could -- but no more). I believe, for myself, that fence sitting allows me a certain measure of distance from most topics.
I would debate, however, if agnosticism is a "flavor" of atheism. Seems to me that atheists are definitely off the fence.
Not a problem for me; just an interesting exercise in semantics.
on edit: can't spell
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Thu Jun-09-05 11:16 PM
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I'd change the title phrase were I able to at this point to something more generic. Perhaps atheism is a "flavor" of agnosticism? Or perhaps it is better described as a continuum of dis/belief...
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Fri Jun-10-05 09:16 AM
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37. I like the idea of a continuum, |
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(fits right into my sensibilities, after all!)
Not long ago I was reading about a new methodology of "categorizing" sexuality/gender -- the idea was that a simple continuum was too limiting to accommodate the varieties of feelings on the issue, so the researcher came up with a multi-dimensional grid (kind of reminded me of that three-dimensional chess game).
I think the issue of faith, belief/non-belief, and religion is at least as complicated as gender and sexuality. Perhaps a similar hypothesis would prove useful.
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Tue Jun-14-05 10:00 PM
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38. Agnostic in theory, Atheist in practice |
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As the poll states, we can't know either way, which I feel compelled to acknowledge, so I consider myself an agnostic. However, I have no use for organized religion. I meditate, so I guess that can be considered spirituality....
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Wed Jun-15-05 10:04 PM
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Maybe Beef, maybe Pork....
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